{"id":3893,"date":"2015-03-03T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/?p=3893"},"modified":"2015-03-03T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T16:00:21","slug":"tracking-with-closeups-february-4th-through-march-3rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloggie.org\/books2\/2015\/03\/tracking-with-closeups-february-4th-through-march-3rd\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking with closeups (February 4th through March 3rd)"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/semiprozine.org\/semiprozine-directory\/\">Semiprozine Directory | Semiprozine.org<\/a> &#8211; <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/approachingpavonis.blogspot.co.uk\/2015\/02\/asimovs-science-fiction-february-2015.html\">Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction &#8211; February 2015<\/a> &#8211; Reading this piece, I was struck by the sense &#8211; which I think has also been articulated by Gardner Dozois &#8211; that we&#039;re starting to see the emergence of what you might call the &quot;New Default Future&quot;. Bear&#039;s world is one of vanishing privacy, information for all, continued social inequality, climate change as a given, radical lifestyle changes effected by new biotechnology. You can tweak the parameters a bit, but it does seem as if writers are once again beginning to converge on a shared sense of the future. No, it doesn&#039;t necessarily involve space colonies or rolling roads or flying cars, but it&#039;s no less valid, no less fascinating.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/flavorwire.com\/502081\/we-need-diverse-books-can-childrens-authors-end-publishing-industry-prejudice-and-change-the-way-america-reads\">We Need Diverse Books Authors Take on Publishing, Reader Prejudice &ndash; Flavorwire<\/a> &#8211; A few weeks later We Need Diverse Books, the social media movement that has grown into a well-regarded nonprofit in a matter of months, was born. The founders had already started planning their campaign when, not for the last time, an incident of industry racism gave them momentum. In April, BookCon &mdash; a subsidiary of New York-based publishing mega-conference BookExpo &mdash; announced a panel of superstar children&rsquo;s authors that consisted of all white men, while the overall conference lineup was all white people, aside from Grumpy Cat.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/intellectusspeculativus.wordpress.com\/2015\/02\/04\/guest-post-elizabeth-bear-on-strong-female-characters\/\">GUEST POST: Elizabeth Bear on &ldquo;Strong Female Characters&rdquo; &laquo; Intellectus Speculativus<\/a> &#8211; Specifically, my problem is that the idea that a female lead must be a &ldquo;strong female character&rdquo; leads to a whole complex of other problems. So here&rsquo;s an inexhaustive survey of some of them, and some suggestions on how to avoid the traps.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coolhunting.com\/culture\/conventional-wisdom-by-arthur-drooker\">Conventional Wisdom by Arthur Drooker &#8211; Cool Hunting<\/a> &#8211; This time, people are the focus of his lens for &quot;Conventional Wisdom.&quot; Drooker plans on attending conventions across the United States to capture the inner-workings of dedicated, passionate and sometimes surprising, communities, all in service to his next proposed book. We&#039;re excited to share exclusive sneak peeks from his explorations, as the &quot;Conventional Wisdom&quot; trek unfolds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semiprozine Directory | Semiprozine.org &#8211; Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: Asimov&#8217;s Science Fiction &#8211; February 2015 &#8211; Reading this piece, I was struck by the sense &#8211; which I think has also been articulated by Gardner Dozois &#8211; that we&#039;re starting to see the emergence of what you might call the &quot;New Default Future&quot;. 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